: Through their Happy Healthy Homo channel, they focus on mental health, fitness, and living authentically as a gay man.
In recent years, popular media has become increasingly inclusive of LGBTQ+ characters and storylines. Movies like "Moonlight" and "Call Me By Your Name" have received critical acclaim for their portrayal of gay relationships. TV shows like "Sense8" and "Orange is the New Black" have also featured diverse LGBTQ+ characters.
Shows like The Bay (2007) and Hunting Season (2012) began as web series—gritty, low-budget, and unapologetically sexual in a way network TV could never be. These weren't after-school specials about tolerance. They were comedies, dramas, and romances where the characters happened to be gay, and their struggles were about rent, dating, and career anxiety, not just homophobia.